I'd like to thank my editor

Every other post, it seems, my mother, who sometimes comments here, and on other sites, as "your mother," or "heide" says to me, "Ray, that an 'e-i,' not an 'i-e,'" or "are you really supposed to use an apostrophe here?" A retiree, she checks this blog faithfully and catches the errors before anybody else has time to see them. She (a non-native speaker of English) keeps me, an English teacher, trained linguist, and admitted logophile, from appearring to be illiterate.

Thank you, Mom.

Now, I just have to keep people from finding out I make those errors in the first place.